RNC on Obama’s interviews: “This is not a parody”

posted at 4:01 pm on August 17, 2012 by Erika Johnsen

Heh. Because it’s Friday, and it’s funny — on air yesterday with Obama campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt, and again today with DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, MSNBC hostess Andrea Mitchell wondered aloud about the growing sentiment that President Obama doesn’t seem to make himself much available for hard-hitting press coverage.

Both LaBolt and DWS maintained that the President does indeed answer difficult questions on the regular, but as the RNC points out with this latest web vid… Mr. Obama does seem to have a penchant for setting himself up to field softballs.

President Obama just wrapped up another hard-hitting interview where he discussed America’s top concerns, like whether our president prefers green or red chiles, his take on “Call Me Maybe,” and what superpower he wished he had. It’s been over eight weeks since President Obama took a question from the White House Press Corps.

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While I appreciate Skeletor going after Debbie What-a-dumb Schmuck, she has no one to blame but herself and her colleagues. If they hadn’t spent the last 5 years as loyal Obama buttsniffers, he wouldn’t feel so confident about ignoring them in favor of fluff “news” outlets like ET and People Magazine. Try some hard hitting journalism for once(hell, I’ll settle for something on the level of Jake Tapper) and you’ll be surprised how quickly he makes himself available.

(Reuters) – Unemployment rates rose in July from June in almost all U.S. states, including those where the presidential election fight is expected to be fiercest, according to data released on Friday by the Labor Department.

Wow. I mean, really. Wow. What a complete dill-weed. And the “questioners” should be slapped silly as well.

Wait until Mitt gets some questions like “if Iraq and Iran join force and build a nuclear warhead with Russian parts and Chinese engineers, who would you bomb first and why?”. Then of course barack will be asked if he “really thinks Simon Cowell is as mean in real life as he is on his show?”. They will probably help him with the answers too.

So what superpower would the most powerful man in the world like to have, one of his questioners asked, noting that parts of “The Avengers” were filmed in New Mexico.
“It’s kind of a weird superpower, but if I had something that I could immediately wish for, I would love to be able to speak any language,” the president said.
“Now, that’s a weird superpower—it might not come in handy to rescue folks from a burning building,” he added. “But I’ve always wished that whatever country I went to, wherever I met somebody who spoke a different language, that I could right away speak their language.”
“I’m a big believer in making connections with people. But if it’s like an ‘Avengers’ superpower, then I think the whole flying thing is pretty good,” he said. “You can’t beat just kinda swooping around. That looks like it’d be fun.”

Good, but for better still RNC should present shrill sounds and imagery of the serious problems we face, and superimpose this ugliness with his “inappropriate levity,” and / or his arrogance or overindulgence in vacations / golf etc. I love the idea of tying him to Hollywood. That’s vapid, and so O.

In all fairness…that radio “interview” looks like the station was doing the typical campy fluff Q&A session that a lot of stations do. I don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing that particular interview wasn’t ever going to be a hard-hitting interview…kind of like a “Chris Matthews” interview, but a light-hearted “Scott and Todd in the Morning” type of thing.

Andrea’s just jealous because she wanted to flirt and ask insignificant questions. When was the last tough interview this president had? I’m betting it was with Brett Baer, just after the health care bill passed.

This is how a president votes present. I don’t know why you’d expect anything any different from a community organizer with no experience who finds himself President of the United States.

Y’know, I’m generally not inclined toward sexist remarks, but splitscreen with Andrea Mitchell on one side and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz on the other … frankly, I’d rather watch a webcam feed of a Chick-Fil-A kiss-in.

President Obama just wrapped up another hard-hitting interview where he discussed America’s top concerns, like whether our president prefers green or red chiles, his take on “Call Me Maybe,” and what superpower he wished he had. It’s been over eight weeks since President Obama took a question from the White House Press Corps.

You will never hear the nearly-human putative Republican nominee engage in such earthling trivia. But remember, “boxers or briefs?” played the saxophone on television in his Ray-Bans, served two terms and yielded over 20 million jobs.

If you are talking about President Clinton, he had about as much to do with the healthy employment numbers in his tenure as he did with the downfall of the Soviet Empire or the nascent tech explosion of the 1990s.

I would love to take over governance of a nation after a leader like President Reagan.

I would love to come into a venture capital firm or resurrected company or even our oval office after future President Romney.

Hillary or former VP Al Gore would have been better presidents than Bill except he ruined it for them.

To Presient Obama, do you wear boxers or briefs? Oh, hahahaha, don’t answer that (bats eyelashes furiously, shuffles papers with loud ‘tapping’ noises). What the world really, really wants to know is, really, what sacrifices have you and your gorgeous wife made today with your historical, ground-breaking Administration?

…green, red, uhhh, hey, now, uhhh…mumble, mumble goes on for ten minutes, whispy tears in his eyes (and the moderator’s) when he holds his chin way uppp highhh…

– To challenger Mitt Romney:

Can you begin to enlighten the American voters just why you would be a member of a religious cult and do so for so mannny years? What were you thinking?!

Andrea et al do not like being taken for fools. This seems to be a shot over the bow?
Continued disrespect might just draw them out.

PaleoRider on August 17, 2012 at 4:21 PM

You might be on to something here. Maybe the slimestreamers will escalate their high schoolish behavior at being dumped for the “locals”–especially in light of all they’ve done for Him–and go on a nasty back-stabbing get-even grudge spree. We can only hope.

Q: “So Mr. President…It’s time for the big question. Boxers or briefs?”

A: “Andrea, I’ll give you the same answer I gave Rachel Maddow. My underwear shouldn’t be on your radar screen. And you know something? She agreed and asked me about my evolving position on Chick-Fil-A.”

The press probably is looking to try to rebuild some of their objective street Cred so they can hammer Romney and soft pedal Obama in The closing weeks of the campaign. Besides, they thought he was their “friend”. Wah.